Zameer.Ahmed@gs.com ("Ahmed, Zameer") writes:
> Hi,
> Is there a way to turn off nagle compression in the kernel for 2.2.x
> and 2.4.x kernels? For the same custom app used under Solaris and Linux.
> Turning off nagle algorithm boosted perf on Solaris, I tried commenting out
>
> #bool 'IP: Disable NAGLE algorithm (normally enabled)' CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OF
>
> from the net/ipv4/Config.in 2.2.19 kernel and still the degradation in
> network performance for packts in midsize persists
> I tried the 2.4.16 kernel. This gave me very slight improvement, but not
> quite what is expected.
Read the tcp(7) manpage. Enabling the TCP_NODELAY socket option disables
nagle per socket. The Config option is a noop and hasn't done anything for
a long time.
-Andi
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